Simon Willison's Weblog: chicagocrimehttp://simonwillison.net/2007-05-24T16:27:04+00:00Simon WillisonKnight Foundation grant2007-05-24T16:27:04+00:002007-05-24T16:27:04+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2007/May/24/knight/#atom-tag
<p><strong><a href="http://www.holovaty.com/blog/archive/2007/05/23/1145">Knight Foundation grant</a></strong></p>
Adrian’s leaving the Washington Post to found EveryBlock, a startup focusing on local news and information in the style of chicagocrime.org.
<p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/adrian-holovaty">adrian-holovaty</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/chicagocrime">chicagocrime</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/everyblock">everyblock</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/startup">startup</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/washington-post">washington-post</a></p>
LiveBus.org2007-02-10T22:56:49+00:002007-02-10T22:56:49+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2007/Feb/10/livebusorg/#atom-tag
<p><strong><a href="http://www.livebus.org/">LiveBus.org</a></strong></p>
Brilliant Google Maps mashup in a similar vein to Chicago Crime—displays screen-scraped bus timetable information for Oxfordshire and Surrey in a far more useful format.
<p><small></small>Via <a href="http://james.wheare.org/notes/2007/02/livebusorg-launched.php">James Wheare</a></small></p>
<p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/chicagocrime">chicagocrime</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/google-maps">google-maps</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/james-wheare">james-wheare</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/livebus">livebus</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/maps">maps</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/mashup">mashup</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/oxford">oxford</a></p>
How I'm using Amazon S3 to serve media files2006-04-07T18:51:53+00:002006-04-07T18:51:53+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2006/Apr/7/im/#atom-tag
<p><strong><a href="http://www.holovaty.com/blog/archive/2006/04/07/0927">How I'm using Amazon S3 to serve media files</a></strong></p>
Adrian’s saving server overhead on ChicagoCrime by serving media from S3.
<p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/adrian-holovaty">adrian-holovaty</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/amazon">amazon</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/aws">aws</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/chicagocrime">chicagocrime</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/s3">s3</a></p>